For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
March 3, 2008
It's taken nearly 60 years for Master Sergeant Woodrow Wilson Keeble to be awarded the medal he earned on the battlefield in Korea. His nominating paperwork was lost, and then it was resubmitted, and then it was lost again.
Then the deadline passed, and Woody and his family were told it was too late. Some blamed the bureaucracy for a shameful blunder. Others suspected racism: Woody was a full-blooded Sioux Indian. Whatever the reason, the first Sioux to ever receive the Medal of Honor died without knowing it was his.
A terrible injustice was done to a good man, to his family, and to history. And today we're going to try to set things right.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/03/20080303-3.html
